Cannot upload to ftp server

Ok, maybe I'm retarded but all I want to do is set up an ftp server to
upload files to. I don't care about security because this is a test
server on a LAN. I've tried both the default setups for vsftpd and
proftpd and neither one will let me just log in as a user and upload a
file to the user's home directory. I keep getting "Permission denied"
errors.

How do open the server wide up and let anyone upload anything anywhere
the unix file permissions will let them go?

Thanks,
Shawn

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Ok, maybe I'm retarded but all I want to do is set up an ftp server to
> upload files to. I don't care about security because this is a test
> server on a LAN. I've tried both the default setups for vsftpd and
> proftpd and neither one will let me just log in as a user and upload a
> file to the user's home directory. I keep getting "Permission denied"
> errors.
>
> How do open the server wide up and let anyone upload anything anywhere
> the unix file permissions will let them go?
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
>

Have you checked 'man ftpd'? You can set up an anonymous
account for anybody to use, but they will be restricted to
the anonymous home directory in a chroot jail. Most ftp
servers require users to be listed in the password file of
the server for normal access.

I've got it working so that normal users can ftp into the server and
they can see their files but can't upload to their home directory. I
keep getting this error message that says '553 could not create file'.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. This should be dead simple to
set up but apparently not.

Shawn

ARRRRRGGHHHH!!!! The problem was f#$@ing SELINUX!! Disable the @#$%
thing in /etc/selinux/config!!